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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 110

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The King, however, would not yet deliver over the promised reward, and made a third demand, that, before the marriage, the Tailor should capture a wild boar which did much damage, and he should have the huntsmen to help him. "

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**Who acts:** King, Tailor, wild boar, huntsmen · **What happens:** not deliver, promise, make, capture, do, have · **To what, where:** promised reward, third demand, wild boar, much damage, huntsmen, Tailor

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Tailor, wild boar, huntsmen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:13:110
# text = The King, however, would not yet deliver over the promised reward, and made a third demand, that, before the marriage, the Tailor should capture a wild boar which did much damage, and he should have the huntsmen to help him. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deliver** | would | the King |  |  | the promised reward | yet | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | the King *not said here* | a third demand |  |  |  | that *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product |
| 4 | **capture** | should | the Tailor | a wild boar |  |  | before the marriage |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | a wild boar | much damage |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |
| 6 | **have** | should | Tailor | the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | the huntsmen *not said here* |  | Tailor |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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